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A dynamic image of an astronaut can be seen through a torn piece of paper. The astronaut is floating in space, surrounded by stars and space debris. His golden helmet reflects the light. The spacesuit is in warm shades of orange and brown. The contrast between the white, torn paper in the foreground and the dark space scene behind it creates a 3D effect, as if the astronaut is jumping out of the picture.

Web-to-Print

Produce flyers, product sheets, price lists or complete product catalogs conveniently via the Pimcore backend.
Pimcore provides ideal support for your web-to-print and cross-media publishing projects. Pimcore's product information management system provides structured data, including all relevant multimedia assets. Since software version 4.1.0, Pimcore also offers an integrated web-to-print feature. This allows catalogs to be created in a CI-compliant manner with up-to-date data, individual prices and high-quality images in no time at all. The print-ready PDF files are delivered directly from the Pimcore PIM system.

Web-to-Print

Even though online has become the predominant medium, print still has its place. Printed matter makes your company's offer stand out from the mass of digital messages. Printed catalogs are an important driving force in e-commerce: your customers notice your printed materials, even if you have not reached them via newsletter for a long time.

For print to work in the digital world, it must meet current requirements. Companies are therefore well advised to think about scope and frequency: the catalog as a reference work has had its day.

Today, print is more of a useful addition to the store and provides seasonal and occasion-related buying impulses. Ideally, companies should compile the product range individually for their customers and thus implement the online trend of personalized user experiences in print as well.

Pimcore at the Heart of the Web-to-Print System

Pimcore user interface
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Preview of the Pimcore-generated PDF
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Pimcore user interface with printed catalog in the foreground
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To meet today's requirements, companies need powerful web-to-print software. First of all, offers must be synchronized across all channels, and prices and product information must be identical. An integrated all-in-one platform such as Pimcore is a great help here. Digital media and product information are stored centrally and displayed on the website and online store via the content management system.

If the information in the PIM system is up-to-date and the publishing process is defined, print is ideally just another output channel.

The Web-to-Print Workflow in Pimcore

1
Create template:

Use the technology of your choice - HTML5, CSS3 or Javascript.
2
Compile print documents:

Here you have the familiar, user-friendly CMS functionalities of Pimcore at your disposal - with access to all data stored in Pimcore.
3
Convert to PDF:

Render HTML/CSS to PDF - directly in Pimcore with a third-party rendering tool. Currently supported are wkhtmltopdf and PDFreactor.

Case Study: How Windhager Automates Catalog Creation

Read how the Austrian Windhager Handelsgesellschaft m.b.H. uses the Pimcore Web-to-Print solution to save time and costs in the creation of high-quality product catalogs.

Create Extensive Print Products Easily

Even complex, multi-page print products can be easily created with Pimcore's web-to-print feature. A distinction is made between the PrintPages and PrintContainer document types:

PrintPages are flexible Pimcore documents that can be edited just as intuitively as normal Pimcore pages.

These print documents therefore support everything from template creation and structuring content using areas and editables to inserting assets and objects saved in Pimcore using drag-and-drop.
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PrintContainers themselves have no content, but bundle all sub-pages (PrintPages) into a single PDF.
In this way, they make it possible to structure extensive print products such as catalogs, price lists, books, etc. Of course, you can also nest PrintContainers.
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For example, create a higher-level container that contains several chapter containers, which in turn contain the actual print pages.

Creating Relevant Added Value With Pimcore

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